MAYTE VISITS OS DE CIVIS & LES VALLS DE VALIRA

Today, The Grandma has received wonderful news from Mayte, who has spent some days visiting Os de Civís, a wonderful town in the municipality of Les Valls de Valira in the county of L'Alt Urgell, Catalonia.

Os de Civís is a village in the central Pyrenees mountains, in the municipality of Les Valls de Valira in Catalonia, and is located to the west of Andorra, near the villages of Aixàs and Bixessarri.

Civís is the nearest Catalan village. It is the most populated village in the municipality.

Os de Civís is very close to the Catalonia–Andorra border, and is unique in being the only Catalan village that can be reached by vehicle only by going through Andorra.

The border crossing is unique in Andorra in that there is no border control: Andorra is in neither the Schengen Area nor the European Union, and thus operates full border and customs checks at all other border crossings with Catalonia South and Catalonia North, but the crossing to Os de Civís is unpoliced as the road leads solely to the village, with no access to anywhere else in Catalonia.

The village has a number of medieval buildings, including a Romanesque church.

Les Valls de Valira is a municipality in the comarca of the Alt Urgell in Catalonia, that surrounds the south and south-west border of Andorra. It includes a small exclave to the south-east.

More information: Map Carta

 There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees
which are falsehoods on the other.

Michel De Montaigne